Yeah I understood that. I'm even more frustrated by our defensive failure though than some are with the kicking situation. We KNEW our kicker and punter were inconsistent. Hell we've been pretty inconsistent there MOST years for many of the last 20 years. Defense needs to be a constant.
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I don't doubt that he was subdued after their first drive and watching Hill limp around. It was obvious that we were in for a long night and what ever we had game planned wasn't going to work.
Maybe going on the road to a less than raucous environment may benefit the defense a lot in the area of communication.
If we continue with another week of poor tackling, then we are really in trouble. You just can't be missing tackles on the types of athlete's that IND, OSU and USC are gonna throw at you.
It's looking like a 6-6 season, assuming we can find 3 more teams to beat.
Agreed - our defense in terms of hitting - tackling and being in position was a drastic difference from Colorado to Illinois. Looked like a different team altogether.
Zatechka's podcast posted in another thread has some great analysis of a couple of our breakdowns on D.
Even when Ty had his total meltdown on the sidelines with either Gifford or Mbayor, that is never a good sign. I sense the defensive frustration and it needs to get fixed with a possible return to TW having total say in the scheme and game plan.
The poor tackling, the often times confusion in the secondary, and that gaping hole in the middle of the field is not just gonna go away until you close it up and make it go away. We can't be having receivers running around wide open.
Sometimes when you try something new and it doesn't work, just reverting back to what you had success with last year can be a HUGE mental lift for the defenders. MENTAL lift means EMOTION, which has been sorely lacking the last 2 weeks.
We need to recapture our mojo and confidence.
UNI is terrible. They had to rally to beat no-scholarship St Thomas. We have better players, but something is wrong with the scheme. Other teams have figured it out. And it doesn’t help that we have one LB and one S that are way too small to hold up for 4Q to any team that commits to smash mouth football.
Hartzog does worry me defending power running teams which we will be getting a heavy dose of that next week against Rutgers..
Knock it off with that loser talk. 6 to 7 wins would be a failure with this group, with as much senior leadership as we have on the defensive side, and with Dylan living up to his end of the bargain.
Are you calling Jay Moore and Matt Vrzal losers? Dare you to say it to their faces.
I had it and did everything. Stretching. Injections. PT. All the way to surgery. Nothing worked. It sucked hard. Then it went away.
Hope he doesn’t have it bad.
Thank goodness coaches even defensive side know that the talent of Raiola can’t be wasted, the time is now! It’s also very important to future recruiting efforts that star recruits perform well and win.
No he hasn’t. He has been with the team since the start of the season.
There was a drive in the third-quarter where they ran six straight times. It was tough sledding.
In my limited experience with Vrzal he is a total douchebag. Its something watching a 40+ year old still have roid rages over nothing.
Yeah he is an interesting dude. Nice to the people he likes, but overall kind of douchey. He's got that 1970's gym teacher vibe, and I just remember him going off about how NU didn't hire "Duzzi" (Pat Narduzzi) and that we just gotta be tough. His whole mantra is just you gotta be tough and beat the hell out of people. To hell with technique and everything else. Just beat people up. I'm not sure Pitt does that now, but he loved him at MSU.
He brings nothing to the table when he talks on 1620 and literally says the same thing every week. We get it Vrz. You played during the glory days. Good job.